Penguin’s New Microserver Built According to Specifications from
the Open Compute Project (OCP) Delivers Extreme Density and Energy
Efficiency for Hyperscale Datacenters

FREMONT, Calif. — (BUSINESS WIRE) — September 4, 2013 —
Penguin Computing, an official OCP Solution Provider, today demonstrated
a new microserver platform based on the Intel® Atom™ processor C2000
product family. The microserver design is one of the first
implementations that is built according to the Open Compute Project’s
microserver card specification. It can accommodate the 64-bit Intel Atom
processor C2000 that features up to eight cores and up to 32GB of 1600
MHz of DDR3L RAM within power envelopes as low as 6W.

Penguin’s microserver delivers new levels of efficiency and scale for
internet datacenters. At the heart of this design is the Intel Atom
processor C2000, a System on Chip that integrates processing cores, I/O
and memory controllers on a single die. The Atom C2000 delivers seven
times the performance gain, eight times increase in memory capacity and
up to six times improved performance per Watt over its predecessor. With
its extremely low power envelope, the new microserver is ideal for I/O
bound scale out workloads such as low-end web hosting, simple content
delivery and ultra low-end web servers.

“Penguin Computing is at the forefront of providing cutting edge server
and storage solutions for the Open Data Center and our customers are
focused on delivering the maximum compute and storage density within
existing power and cooling constraints,” said Charles Wuischpard, CEO of
Penguin Computing.“Due to its ultra-low power envelope, high density,
expanded memory and 64-bit support for the x86 instruction set, we’ve
added designs based on the Intel Atom processor C2000 to our product
roadmap that will be fundamental to our microserver-based solutions.”

With Penguin Computing’s new microserver platform workloads that have
been processed by racks of conventional systems can now be handled by a
group of servers in a single physical unit. Penguin Computing’s
microserver platform features a modular architecture that allows for
right-sizing compute capacity by populating each chassis with the right
number of microserver cards required to accommodate a specific workload.

“Penguin Computing is one of the leading providers of large-scale, Linux
based cloud computing solutions,” says Raejeanne Skillern, Director of
Cloud Marketing, Intel. “Penguin Computing’s latest microserver platform
that is based on the Intel Atom processor C2000 product family will
enable our joint customers to leverage its energy efficiency and server
density for lightweight scale-out workloads without the need to port
tools and applications.”

The microserver cards as well as the microserver system are compliant
with specifications defined by the Open Compute Project, an open,
community driven initiative geared at maximizing datacenter efficiency.

About Penguin Computing

Penguin Computing is the largest private supplier of complete high
performance computing (HPC) solutions in North America and has built and
operates the leading specialized public HPC cloud service Penguin
Computing on Demand (POD). Penguin Computing also applies its core
expertise in the field of distributed large-scale enterprise computing
delivering scale-out compute, storage, virtualization, and cloud
solutions for organizations looking to take advantage of modern open
data center architectures.

Penguin Computing has been pioneering the concept of integrating and
delivering solutions that are based on open architectures and comprise
non-proprietary components from a variety of vendors. Penguin
Computing’s Arctica network switches are the first products on the
market enabling customers to individually select hardware and software
components. Penguin Computing is also one of only five authorized Open
Compute (OCP) solution providers leveraging this Facebook-led initiative
to bring the most efficient open data center solutions to a broader
market.

Penguin Computing has more than 18,000 systems installed with over 2,500
customers in 40 countries across several major vertical markets.